Condoms floating in Milwaukee harbor spark angry dispute
Some things can only happen in Milwaukee:When a fisherman came across a messy slick of hundreds of spent condoms in the Milwaukee harbor recently, suspicious eyes turned to the nearby Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.
I guess the treatment plant is having trouble filtering out flushed condoms from the rest of the sewage. Most debris that makes it trough the treatment plant sinks, but condoms float:
Condoms that get through the screens can fill with air in the final stage of the treatment process. They then pop to the surface of the harbor. Some sewerage workers call them "silver fish" because of their appearance in the effluent.
Eventually, the ultraviolet rays of the sun cause the condoms to deteriorate and sink, Burney said.
Either that, or someone's getting a lot of action down at the harbor.
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